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Summary: Couldn't put it down...
Review: This is a gripping story. If you like mysterious, chilling stories about dark psychological matters, you will like this book. It is easy to loose yourself in the tale of obsession and lonelyness.
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Summary: Everyone dated the demise of our neighborhood...
Review: This book saved my life, though not in the way one might think (I'm an unpublished writer with a penchant for music). After repeated listens to the score (by Air--highly recommended!), I finally found an older copy of this and dove in. Two things happened--I am now eagerly awaiting what promises to be a great movie, and more importantly, it has rejuvenated my writing. Eugenides excels in capturing what it's like growing up in suburban 70s recession and "playground love". Kudos to JE for bringing my writing back into focus! One suggestion: listen to the score first, then read the book. The added ambience will definitely make you fall in love with the book.
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Summary: surely there must be more from this author?
Review: Jeffrey Eugenides "Virgin Suicides" is a fascinating and engrossing tale of love, youth & suicide. Impossible to read without falling in love with the language and characters. A classic which cannot be properly transferred to the big screen. This book is all about emotion. Read it - you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Chilling!
Review: I read "The Virgin Suicides" over four years ago, and it still is by far the best book I have ever read. The book follows the doomed life of a family of sisters, as witnessed by the neiborhood boys. The author writes the chill into the air, making you read certain passages over again Much like passing a car wreck, you don't WANT to read it again, but you do. The story stays with you, as if it happened in your hometown, as if you knew the charecters. I have always said that this book would make a great movie, and I know now that it is in the early stages of production (although I do not know who is making it). The problem is this...very few movies live up to the books that created them, and I fear that this will be the same. No one can paint a correct picture on film. this story has a picture that is best left up to the reader to paint.
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Summary: unrequited obsession
Review: Eugenides has given us bits and pieces of a truly unusual tale. Though some bits are missing, I think it adds to the complexity of the story's dark puzzle. In fact, it's kind of nice to fill in the blanks on your own, almost as if you too lived in the Lisbon's neighborhood and were wondering what propelled the suicides, one after the next. There is not always a neat little answer to life's (and death's) questions and kudos to the author for not trying to wrap it all up in a neat and predictable package. The prose is terriffic, making excellent use of language, evoking superb visuals. Also, the chosen collective narrative is brilliant. It is heartbraking how true the boys are to their obsession with the girls. Eugenides is a wizard at conveying all the nostalgic nuances of adolescence-excitement, wonder, attraction and the logical impracticality of decisions made fresh without the benefit of experience. The pure, unadulterated devotion of the boys continually amazed me. It was as if by documenting the story (years later and well into manhood) they were still trying to make things better for the girls they loved, so close and yet so far, making it achingly clear the respect they still shouldered for the Lisbon girls, and the fact that they had still not gotten over them and in all probability never will. Again, I wholelly appreciated the choice descriptions, even reading some of the more delightful snipits out loud to my husband.
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Summary: Fabulous
Review: I read this book after I read a review that said it would be coming to the movies in April of 2000. I can't wait to see it! If it was as good as the book it will be the best movie ever. It was about 5 sisters ranging from ages 13 to 17 who slowly start killing themselves. It was from the view of the male classmates who were in love with the girls and did everything they could to get near them. It was an odd book and it was pretty scary. I wanted to finish it one night and I got too tired and stopped right after something VERY unexpected and scary happened and it freaked me out! I don't know what the people who didn't like the book were thinking because I thought it was a wonderful book! Everyone should read it over the age of 12.
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Summary: This book is a masterpiece
Review: I can't reccomend this book enough. It is beautiful. They say that a badly written story with a unique idea is better than that of a nicely written one with a cliched idea. Eugenides was able to capture both. This book is not lacking in originality and, although not brimming with action, I found it incredibly hard to put down. It is, in my opinion, worth reading, and keeping so that you can read is again and again.
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Summary: A true critique on the American family
Review: The Virgin Suicides uses a technique of "bits and pieces" that forces the reader to look through the eyes of the narrators, and follow their obsession for the Lisbon sisters. The book is beautifully detailed, and has many underlying meanings about our patriarchal society, as well our obsessions for the truth about the opposite sex.
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Summary: engrossing, funny, sadder than i wanted it to be
Review: A great book, didnt realise how good till i'd finished it. Frantically looking for more books by this author.....in vain it seems.Favourite line in the book is when Trip Fontaine recalling the evening he spent in the Lisbon house says "You would have killed yourself just to have something to do" WORTH READING
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Summary: Buy this book.
Review: I actually ended up buying this book because of a magazine review. I was definately surprised at the outcome of this book.I was stunned beyond words,to be truthful.I hope Mr. Eugenides puts a few more books soon.I'll be the first one in line to buy them!
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